Day Dreamer
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IMHO, it is important that we take things for what they are and discontinue this trend of stereotyping all anti's as socialists/communist/leftist/whatever.
I am a socialist (OH NOES! Get the pitchforks!). Yet, I vehemently oppose any form of gun control. As does every other true socialist I've met. It's not hard to tell a false socialist from a real one; a real socialist knows that time and again governments both right and left wing have revoked the people's most basic right to self defense as a means to oppress and control said people, under the pretext that the seizure of guns was being done to make the populace safer. For this reason, amongst a multitude of others, true socialists recognize the fundamental right of people to self defense from each other, and most importantly, government.
It's crucially important that you not be fooled by people who proclaim to be leftist yet in the same sentence advocate gun control. These people represent one of the worst forms of deception, one they themselves may not be aware of, yet are guilty of. True leftists always act in the people's interests, and it IS NEVER IN THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST TO BE DISARMED. Never.
BOTTOM LINE: Beware of people claiming to act on the people's behalf ('leftists") while doing things obviously not in the people's best interests. And please, for the benefit of all of us, call them out for what they are. They are not leftists, they are not socialists, they are not democrats, they are dangerously deluded individuals suffering from an inability to look rationally at the world. These very same caliber of people are the ones most eager to swallow up the propaganda and lies of an authoritarian government and accept them as truths.
It was ignorance and idiocy of the same type that allowed the governments of the former USSR, China, Cuba, Nazi Germany, etc. to so effectively oppress their people.
Fear false leftists.
edit: gun control is not a political issue; it is an issue of common sense.
I am a socialist (OH NOES! Get the pitchforks!). Yet, I vehemently oppose any form of gun control. As does every other true socialist I've met. It's not hard to tell a false socialist from a real one; a real socialist knows that time and again governments both right and left wing have revoked the people's most basic right to self defense as a means to oppress and control said people, under the pretext that the seizure of guns was being done to make the populace safer. For this reason, amongst a multitude of others, true socialists recognize the fundamental right of people to self defense from each other, and most importantly, government.
It's crucially important that you not be fooled by people who proclaim to be leftist yet in the same sentence advocate gun control. These people represent one of the worst forms of deception, one they themselves may not be aware of, yet are guilty of. True leftists always act in the people's interests, and it IS NEVER IN THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST TO BE DISARMED. Never.
BOTTOM LINE: Beware of people claiming to act on the people's behalf ('leftists") while doing things obviously not in the people's best interests. And please, for the benefit of all of us, call them out for what they are. They are not leftists, they are not socialists, they are not democrats, they are dangerously deluded individuals suffering from an inability to look rationally at the world. These very same caliber of people are the ones most eager to swallow up the propaganda and lies of an authoritarian government and accept them as truths.
It was ignorance and idiocy of the same type that allowed the governments of the former USSR, China, Cuba, Nazi Germany, etc. to so effectively oppress their people.
Fear false leftists.
edit: gun control is not a political issue; it is an issue of common sense.